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cannot

i can't laugh
i can't cry
i can't eat
i can't starve
i can't sleep
i can't awaken
i can't live
i can't die
my head is my prison cell

my paper

you burn
my paper
not seeing
the fingerprints
and eraser bits
and ash
but instead
seeing the crook
in the corner

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